Less Talk, More Do » Brian Alvey http://www.chrisfinke.com Christopher Finke is a software engineer. He is available for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:23:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 WAMP! BAM! POW! http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/21/wamp-bam-pow/ http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/21/wamp-bam-pow/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:26:17 +0000 Christopher Finke http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/21/wamp-bam-pow/ This morning, I needed to troubleshoot an error that was occurring in my Feed Statistics plugin when running on a Windows machine as well as under PHP 5. Since I normally do all of my development in *nix environments, I didn't have such an environment readily available. Having installed Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Windows XP before, I knew that I could do it, but it would probably take the better part of an hour.

I did a quick search for WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) and found the WAMP project - a single-file download that ostensibly installs Apache, MySQL, and PHP 5 in a Windows environment. I had tried this kind of package before with little luck, but this one literally took 3 minutes to set up, and after 5 minutes of debugging, I had found and fixed the bug in the plugin. Total time spent was less than 10 minutes when I had expected that it would take more than an hour - definitely one of the best software experiences I've had in recent memory.

(As for this post's title, I think all of the comic references at Brian's blog are rubbing off on me.)

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